The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-16 00:00:00

ONLY ITARKET AND r iplatif.EßClAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. o l he Probability that a stimulus will be given to trade °ll gh the re d uc ti on effected yesterday in the rate of The has brought out an additional supply of bill s . /le Roney Market is now well supplied with capital, and there appears to be little doubt that the commercial corn -11114Y Will, as soon as the accounts for the whole Yea r are completed, be induced to enter into l arger 4aft eacti( ns than recently. Of late business has been eireutnEcribed in consequence of the prudence generally 48e rred by a ll c l asses d ur i ng t h e recent pressure and Itlia gency. The future course of affairs is now regarded nth less anxiety, and as money becomes cheaper people 41 be more inclined to extend their connections. 4 t Present the u sua l ac i ve i nqu i r y f or accommo d at i on, t letLer with the revenue payments, enable discounters to tisk - full rates for the assistance they grant, and d 6 per teat, are the general quotations for the best bills of three 1:11(1 „, 4 the' date. 41 1 e return issued from the Bank of England shows that the e stablishment had undergone some very favourable !Nee. The bullion and reserve of notes have been wig ie4tefit while the discount business has been conside ra bly t leed. Subjoined are the particulars : Active Circulation Decrease .. Bullion .. .. Increase .. Rest .. .. .. £19,178,715 .. 463,495 .. 14,122,711 • 282,017 .. 3,325,294 t 1.350 .. 7,161.719 693,175 .. 12,267,474 .. 399,290 .. 491,117 41. 15,211 • 10,474,542 No alteration. Other S e cu r iti es .. 17,730.066 Btcrease .. 425.066 Notes Unemployed .. .. 8,825,360 Increase .. " 726,055 titt T he return issued this week by the Bank of France is 4 satisfactory. The bullion has been decre ase d 0 ' 180 ,000; th e curren t accoun t s £712,000 ; an d t h e a d vances I °,o oo. The discounts show an augmentation of t 78 4,000 ; th e notes in ci r c u l a ti on £630,000; and the 84841 7 balances £473,400. Increase Public Deposits • • .. Increase .. • • • • Other Deposits.. .. • • Decrease .. • • • Seven Day and other Bills .. Increase Government Securities .. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's I : le gram, the 3 per cent. French Rentes were 38 e. Steady. v ery little animation has been perceptible in the En glish Stock Market to-day, This dullness, how t need not excite surprise, as the public gene. 4 ' l ° at this season curtail their operations as m u c h 4opossible. The Funds show no change, and Con -418 are 891 1 for money, and 891 1 for the e ount, The New Threes and Reduced Annuities It a 88 1 1 ; the Annuities, 1835, 14 7 -16; Exche ",er Bills, 4s. dis. ; and Indi a 5 p er C en t s ., 103. 4 th e F ore i gn M ar k et t h ere has b een very li tt l e 4 4 1 8 411 ation or fluctuation. Turkish 6 per Cents., h 6 2) are 72 1 ; do. Consolides, 471 ; Mexican, 1; do. New, 271 ; Greek, 221 231; Spanish 4 4 : 3 'ive, 311 ; do, Certificates, 141; the Confede. ir Loan, 62 63; the Danubian, 1 die., 1 prem.; V i i/ a gyptian Loan, 1k prem.; and the Monte 'ant / 1 prem. a t l it the Railway Share Market a firmer tone has t4 6 ' 4 iled, and prices have shown an upward move- W e 't• South Eastern have improved £1 ; South tern and Midland each 15s. ; Great Northern, 44 1 : 1 11 t Western,Lancashire and Yorkshire, Brighton, IC London, Chatham, and Dover each 10s. ; and rth Western ss. tl The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive ab out p rev i ous p r i ces . Ba tik and Miscellaneous Shares generally show o "r more firmness. Imperial Ottoman have im. k4 ° :ed to 171 ; Lond o n a nd County to 80; London t o ; Westminster to 971 ; Ocean Marine Insurance 4 1 26 ; and Royal Mail Steam to 931 941. 4 4OV.til BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK, U U r NMENT FUNDS. dent. C onso l e I pe ° Account, Jan 10 li L e a jent. Reduced s e 3 0 per Cent , blt 2 2 per Cent. Jan. 1894 . • • • 4 b ,,° 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 0_ 1 ,., 30 yrs, expire &th J an., 1880 — j ° for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 188.5 l4 7-16 42 (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — 4 equer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per lieut 4 dis 1)0 £500 4 4 be £lOO and £2OO uolik e gland Stk, 51 per Ct. , Account (1,,,q1bik.,,T GOVERNMENT mAj --••• SECURITIES. C Btoek, 101 per Cent., April 1874 shut I) ° tccount 216 x d 1)0o u Per Cent. July, 1870 I:l o l'eeount Per Cent., Oct, 1888 — b o i bo Certificates .. DOl Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — 0 0 't Pei Cent. D 0 Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent -- 11 Per Cent., Jan. 1872. — 1) 0 A n. Per Cent., May, 1879 — 0 0 7, Per Cent., Aug. 1866 hp urids il,OOO — pm 4.der ,El,OOO — bt., FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. aziri Bonds, 5 per Cent — • bo 4 14 , 4 5 per Cent t ~\ - 2 per Cent., 1852-58-60 t4i q " 0 - 1863 — D 44 1 A t,o 4 Yres 6 per Cent — 4 4 4 eeount.... DOoi 6 Per Cent. t4l°tsit Per Cent bbo per 6 - Ittx p l er 6 e Cent e 1- - i 6 Per 11 ' 1 , al l 3 Cent. 1864 . — I's 6 per Cent., 1825 4 11 06 Per Cent, 1864 N tdo Per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid Vo,Consolidated 1 Cent - Pm 11 1)b . revisonal Land Warrant er — ~s 4 ' 4 , 4 _7 per Cent 95/ 'Jo l'iU Bonds ' second Issue Do 8 ., .Do 1864 941 51 iAl t YrIP, £l5 paid la t pm bs . o Per , ,e „ c Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — N 6 , 1 ount PIZ% A ccount Do _ — 1 _ t ‘ r°4l a sper it 14183,, Cent. NI , u and 1859 „ 1 , 4 ' . Per • Cent.(Maremmana Railway) 71i Do V Per Cent account Do 6 ok 1864 L o Per Cent. Anglo-French Vo p, cr iP) £43 paid .. k;o_ t i a - h rench Scrip, E; . 251 20c — die a d : 6; Imperial 5 per Cent D o ti 2 411 ada — ob e per Cent..... — D 40 t a terred , o b _LQ Warrants (1-lectarQs) .. — P, -- D ebentures, 4 per Ct., April 1864 — Aug., 1666 — 1 1 1 1.1 % ,, ° , do VI a ~. q per Cent — , boo - i rer Cent. (Uribarren) .. p o, A I Per Cent., 1862 i)l4tll e:e lint bo A e _ 3 per Cent., 1853 D og a _ ~o unt • • -- Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3.. N' tt _ ant .. ,Joe 6 per Cent 1822, £ St., — Vo z Per Cent., 1850 .. o l i 1860 Do e a Per Cent 1859 ~t o Per Cent, 1862 g4 t (/ % • 18(14 0 () rip £6 , • t i _tlit,, 2 co paid ~i . 4 „_ v per Cent 71 %Twit Do A„,, Per C ent . .. . ;,Jo 4 ',,t:ount — o,•' A "? Deferred Do N a c c i ount _ h. A _ ive cnooount Fe o 4 A` ee C o ort. of Coup not funded .. 4 1) 1.1.14 114 11 ' 6 411 P n e t r Cent OL . d ke, Per Cent. 1854 ije Per I), ° iLl e „ r Cent. 1858 I ) 41 0 nt D 0 6 ,2 Bonds II ? r Cent. 1862 b,`' 'countion O c ; % I ,: Bonds.. 1 th i j6eittteed, 4 per Cent b'llol scrip, £4O paid . ii A 4 3 Pere bt) O count Cent. 0 A Per C ent., tt a ‘ktl e , 1862 g ant 4,, 0 C ent 01,. 'Vid e ... :, 1864 e ti v it ls i; 6 Luis on the above payable in Lonlon , t i t e s ll l: li Per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. ~t i prg e Cent., Ex. 25f..... — j _ 4111111)Z erant, Ex. 12 Gail 04 1, _ e late _ _Certificates .u ch . per zt,,,: ja per Cent — K . O tilit kj t-,. 1861, Ex. 25 francs 65 vklo:teto,llsar B onds . 4i per Ct.Eaz 4s. per Cent., Ex. 2,5 f • — t o B‘ (i la, o A it TWO O'CLOCK, t." . -..0n - , ey It .014 . `. .. ... s iv, ...... ,0,5,• SHARE This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Share Railways. Paid: Closing ; Business I Price. I done. ilir, Vol., and Str. Val.! all inythe and Tyne. ' 100 Bristol and Exeter I 100 Caledonian 1 100 ,•ork and Bandon 1 a, ~ 2 , ornwall I all Do A EA 2ets no die) "" ..,, Do. B till 6 pc.pan.lins all been paid to B. Dublin lz Belfast June.' all [ ) un.,Perth,&Ab. June.' all Edinburgh & Glasgow. 100 alasg. and S. Western.' 100 Great Eastern, Ord. stx 100 Ditto A stock lOO 87 19 131 132 Ditto East Anglian st 100 GreatNorthof Scotland ' 100 Great Northern.. ; 100 Do A stock ' 100 Do 13 do Gt. S. and W. of Irelan , 100 (Great Western,Original 100 Do Str Val gua. stock 100 Do. South Wales .... Do. West Mid. -Oxford NewportDo Ho Hereford Lanoashire & Yorkshire' London and Blaokwat I, Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast' Lin., Chat., and Dovcr Lon. & North Western Lon. & So'.th Western' Man., Shot, & Lincoln.; Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares... lietropoll tan Midland Do Binning.. Derby did. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. ¢ shares Mid Kent North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee' Nth. Eastern—Berwie. I Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Car1i51e........., Do. Stock. & Darling. Do do 1855-58 Do do North London Do New Do New, l8(4. North Staffordshire and S. W. Junction , Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stoo, Do Soot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welohpooi Shropshire Union South Dev0n......., South Eastern Wok.,andWok Taff Vale.. Do C •1 Vale of Neath ' Waterford & Kilkenny , West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.4.%E ' 6 7 31 86 16 17 90 92 106 108 cli 18j 71 81 131 135 155 k 156 k 130 134 88 90 79 791 67 69 57 59 44 46 100 102 116 ;16) 82 84 104 /05 37 39 1181 119 97 99 65 64 120 '2l 138 r 384 106 .08 55 67 25 C 7 113 114 7if 72f 1 3 104 88 39 11 1? p 9 10 120 125 2pl 1 1i 79 80 102 Pi 138 142 58 63 42 44 854 E. 52 8 9 153 68 34 44 , 1 8 110 38 40 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing ihari hallways Paid. Price. Justness dont 100 tlantio &St T,awrenc , all 58 60 8k Baroda&.G'ent In , 1023 1u33 1031 3 Gu. 5 per cent 20 Do. E. shares 203 iStitalo and Lake Hurot 411 5 6 3 10 Do. Preference . all 8 9 too suffalo,Brant,&Godrie) Ip. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 187. tug 10u Do. do. July 1, 187 tou 75 80 iOO )0. do. June 1. 187 100 st 11 eutta.&S.Eastn.(Liti 100 98 100 st 'apeTown Dock Seri 100 8) 90 100 Demerara 7 p.c. per. pf all stook tutstn. Bengal go. ay. to 1021 1033 stool h:ast Indian. on. Sp. i• 100 1031 104 t, 1041 20 Do. do. J Ext 5 stook ;rand Trunk of 10t) 21 22 211 1 0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 0 per cent all 80 91 100 Do. Ist yret. Bonds.. ut 70 72 100 Do. ao. deferred all 61 34 100 Do. 2(1 Pref. Bonds.. all 66 68 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 56 58 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock ... all 53 64 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 47 60 100 Do. 4th Pref. stook... eh 30 32 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 28 30 t 3 t.lndlaPenin.gua.6p.( 'OO 1031 1043 1031 20 Do. Gut. 5 per cent .. 12 pr 313 10 Do. /New gua. sp. c... a pr 3p stook it. South.of India (Lim ,/,uaranteed 5 per oent. 1 ,1 0 101 103 stock Do. 41 per cent.... 100 stock Do £0 3t.W. of Canada Share, all 9 9} 201 Do. New .. lB 113 11 100 Po. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 83 60 100 Do. 51 p. o. do. '77-8.. . all 80 62 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 6 d stock Iladras guar., sp. o. 100 10 , E 1031 stook Do. 43 p. o. Ex tensiot 100 96 98 stock Dc. 4h do lOO 91 93 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 stock delb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnch. 100 50 %Leib. & Hobson's Bay. all 59 61 90 ‘Tew Br unswiok x Cand, Class A and B. all 1 r 3.lll.C'daB po lat pf bdi 100 62 84 3tc c 4 Soinde (I:%t 10 z 163 stock Do. ...... I 100 1023 1033 1021 SO 1)0. do < 2 f d fp .t Punjaub , 1.0 1021 1036 cook Do. Indus. St. Flog) 1,1 " , 1 \.10 , .. V 5 97 IAL (TOE' EttNl‘litiNT SECURITIES. - , British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1872.... 100 Do. do. 1883.... 100 1877-81 -- 6p. c. Feb. & Au, WI. 97 99 D 0.6 p.o.Mar.& Sept 100 97 99 Do. Ep. o. Jata.&July. 10i‘ 87 89 83/ Do. 5 Inscribed stools 100 86 89 1.1 ) e G.Hope, 6p 0,187; lou 103 105 Do.Ap & Oct. 1861 100 105 10:' Do. 1891 100 ILO 108 )0. Jan. & July. 1891.. 100 109 111 ;eyion, N0v.1663, 6 p 101' 104 101 too. 1878, do. ton U 9 112 Mauritius 6 p.cent.lB73 00 105 107 Do. 1878 10, 106 109 1021 Do. 882 IJO 6 108 `fatal Gov. 6 per cent.. tot 1'.,4 1(6 0.1.5.G0v. 6 p.c. J a.&JuI) 10; 98 101 S.W. G OV. 6 p 0.,18.. 101' t 8 100 Du. sp. c.,lBti to loot 100 95 97 Do. d0.,1888 &upwcir 100 94 96 91 , lew Zealand 6 p cent 100 105 107 ova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. steritng, 1875. lOO 99 101 1041 4tieensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 101 103 s.Aus Gov. 0 p.e.lt 68- 100 Do. 178 &at ward 100 107 109 Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 Do. 10 9 p.a. A1).4,00.. 1 100 1061 1071,1063 1061 1071 'lO6l BRITISH MINES. 2 'ambrian Consol. Gold 1 - Chiverton 3 61 71 flora Amalgamated. - 32 83 'Yel7Oll G. Cons. (Tavist. 1 680 600 - Drakewalis....... . - Bassett (Illogan) 47 49 - Nast Caradon ..... .(..14.0 19 20 ..;aBt Cant Brea.— 3.4.0 61 7 - East Grenville 2.7.0. 5} 6 - East Lovell —s:. 4"litusseleravistk. a. 13.; 5 51 amASt.Aurryn(Gwen 60 5 7 4 Great Laxey, all 19 20 beat South 'feigns— t7t. 16 a - Wheal Vor. (lielstor. 10 33 8 7 - irenville.. - lemd's-Foot ,.13 55 37 - I ingston Downs 4 . 18.1 4 41 - .larg.aret (tiny Lelan 5 8 9 - larke Valley.. 4 Iynelv Iron Ore (Lim. 2A a /r. gangiles....... . l9 lAlj •iew sewn 2l/ CO 70 "ortli Downs 3 15 North Roskear.. 296 17 19 111 isaseet(lllo4ai, 3.1..6 15 2 - •orth Wh. al Crofty . 2.8 0 21 24 - Prosper United...., 7.L 25 3 Tovldence(Uny Lelut, 10 6.7 31 3 6 - iouthCaradon(St.Cleer 15 20 540 -:.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.15. s 33 36 - ;tray Park - rin Croit ;6 17 - -Vest Basset (Illogan).. 11 7 9 - VC , radon (Liskeard a 5 •6 - West Chiverton - Nest Sel'On - A heel Basset (Mogan 5/ 90 93 - heal Buller(ltedruti,, 10 9 11 sVhealLudcott rl" heal Mary Ann ;Men , 8 13 as - Wheal 3eton 5B ,95 200 - ,'heal Trelavvney (Lis , 7 18 20 - •+Vheal Union 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties. Ext. No. 1, 107 @eat Western, Chester gua. stock, 83 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Metropolitan 5 per cent., 105 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS, Wilts and Somerset. $8 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 10i Sambre and Meuse, 7} San Paulo ;11m.),Igua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 181 West Flanders, 8 West Flanders, 5} per cent. pf., 9f FOREIGN MINES, Alamillos, limited, If BANKS. Alliance (limo, 371 Ditto, new, 36 Anglo Austrian, 61 Australasia, 68 Bank of British Columbia, 17 Brazilian and Portuguese, Um.. 10/ I British and Californian, lim., 3a t Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China, 30 Chartered .ter. of India, London, and China, 01} 2 Consolidated Bank, lim., 111 East London, lim., 6i European Bank, lim., 81 Hindustan, china, an d Japan (Um.), Ditto, issued at 2 pm., 21i 2 Imperial Ottoman, Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 41 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lim., 71 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 24& London and Comity. 79 I SO London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, Um., 101 London Joint Stock, Ditto, new, 36/ London and South African, 221 London and 11 estminster, 07/ Merchant Bank, tam., 29 Mercantile and Exchange. Oriental Balm Corporation. 57 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, lim., 101 South Eastern, Ihn., 11/ DOCKS. Southampton, 581 9 MISCELLANEOUS Bombay Gas, Um., Ditto, new, 2 Credit Fancier and Mobilicr of England, Si Crystal Palace, 32 Egyptian Com. and Trading, lim., 5 Fore -street Warehouse, Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lira., 6/ 7 Hudson's Bay, lin Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso., Urn., 83r1 International Financial ociety, lira., 7i Joint Stock Discount Um., 7 London General Omnibus Company, 3 M idras Irrgation and Canal, • Ditto (all), 21 2O National Discount Company, lim., 15j Ocean hiarine Insurance), 2511 (3.14, rH E SUl', LOINDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1864. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH STREET, A SCENE IN COURT,—Honorah Murray, a tall, muscular " unfortunate," who has been several times charged at this court with disorderly conduct, was charged before Mr Barker with annoying gentlemen and behaving in a dis orderly manner. The case having been proved by a constable, The prisoner said the police interfered with her when she was with gentlemen, telling them she was a thief, and that annoyed her. Mr Barker said she would be committed for 14 days. The prisoner in a loud voice exclaimed, " That's right Pa get my Christmas dinner and some sauce." On being removed from the court by 13.trns, the gaoler, the prisoner behaved in a most outrageous manner, kicking at every one she carne near. On getting into the yard she picked up a stone, and threw it with great force through the window of the prisoners' waiting room, where several prisoners and constables were sitting. She then became so desperate that it was only by the united exertions of the gaoler and five or six constables she was got to the cells, she all the while using the most violent expressions, and swearing she would have the life if a constable before she was done with them. On ne occasion when the prisoner was charged in the Old Court, she in her desperation flung herself headlong down a flight of stairs, and afterwards smashed some panes of glass iu a door. LAW INTELLIGENCE---This Day. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury BANCROFT V. BANCROFT AND RUMNEY, This was a cross action instituted by the husband for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of adultery with the co-respondent, and he also claimed large damages. Mr Overend, Q.C., said this was a case in which thejury would have to say whether the respondent had committed adultery with the co-respondent. The petitioner was a gentleman, living at Manchester, and in 1862 he married the respondent, who had, previous to her marriage, been living in the house of her brother—ia-law, Mr Rumney, the co-respondent. The petitioner and her husband lived together in happiness until August in the same Year, when a fact was disclosed which quite altered the relation of the petitioner, and Mrs, autcrott subsequently left her hus band's home fur her brother-in-law's, and now he believed she was living at Balton, where she bad been since her deparlure from the petitioner. The learned counsel then went into a detail of the facts of the case, which were disclosed at the last trial when the wife instituted a suit for judgment on the ground of her husband's cruelty, and obtained a divorce nisi. The evidence in the present case would be to the following effect.: That Mr Rumney, being the brother-in-law of the respon dent, had taken advantage of his connection to seduce her affections from her husband, and that on several occasions he had committed adultery with her. That at unseasonable hours he visitA her at her husband's house, and under vei y peculiar circumstances. That he had been seen at various places by different persons in Manchester with the respon dent. He would admit that one or two of the witnesses were of doubtful character, but there would be strcng cor roborative proof as to the consistency of the testimony given by them, and they were persons entirely unconnected with the respondent and co-respondent, and could have no motive for giving false testimony. The facts which had led to the institution of the present suit caused frequent quarrels, which led to great unhappiness, and he would admit of certain acts of violence on the part of tho husband. [The learned counsel was then going into certain acts of adultery, when frequent interruptions took place on the part of Mr M. Chambers and Mr Sergeant Ballantine, the counsel for the respondent, who urged that the adulteries alleged to have been committed by the respondent were entirely new to them, fuel that the particular issues which they were called upon to meet were entirely unknown to them, and that in common justice there ought to be an adjournment, and the costs ought to be defrayed by the petitioner on the ground that he was the party who had not complied with the rules of the Court.] His Lordship said he had no alternative but to adjourn the case. Mr 0 verend contended that every information had been given, which would be found to be the case if his lordship looked to the record. His Lordship said he had it then in his hand. Mr Overend said th-y would show the several acts al leged were there mentioned, and if the parties concerned for the respondent had not properly understood them he considered his client ought not to be put to the expense of paying the cost of an adjournment• His Lordship considered that both parties ought to be subject to loss, as although the petitioner seemed to have been in some measure to blame, the respondent was not entirely blameless. He should make no order as to the costs, The case was then adjourned till next term. CIIETWYND V. CIIETWYND. Sergeant Ballantine said his lordship would be almost as much delayed in this as the former case, for in the case of Clabtwynd v. Chetwnd, which stood next on the list, they were totally unprepared in consequence of not having the slightest idea that the for.ner case would break down, and that he was then the only legal representative in the case present—the Queen's Advocate, who was to open, being at the present time addressing the Court: of P.rivy Council, and there was such peculiarities in the case that he did not feel himself equal to the task of opening the case. The Judge Ordinary said he would give the learned ser• geant until one o'clock to obtain the attendance of the gen tlemen engaged in the case. The court then adjourned until that hour, when The learned Judge again took his seat. The case then proceeded. It was a suit instituted by Mrs Blanche Chetwynd against her husband, Wm. Henry Chetwynd, for dissolution of marriage on the ground of cruelty and adultery. The respondent denied the charge in the petition, and pleaded that she had condoned the adultery, and that if adultery had been committed, she con duced to that state of things by her misconduct. Mr Kerslake, Q.C., said the present suit was of the most painful and extraordinary nature. The petitioner was the eldest daughter of the Hon. and Rev, Arthur Talbot and the respondent, William Henry Chetwynd, a brother, he believed, of the present Baronet. The parties were married in August, 1854, the lady being then about 18 years of age, and Mr Chetwynd about 48. The evidence be should have to offer to them was of the most pain ful and extraordinary nature, and such that but very rarely, if ever, had been heard of in a court of justice The respondent, not content with the greatest cruelty,. but, according to his instructions, he not only was lost to all feelings of decency, but had actually brought women of the worst description into the very house in which his wife resided, and there committed acts of adultery. Not content with this, he became familiar with the female servants in his establishment, and in one case he kept one of the domes tics in' the house as a mistress. He had horsewhipped his wife and turned her out of (kora, and had been guilty of using language towards his wife that would come from the grossest mind, and which respectable men could nut permit their lips to repeat; but, not content with this, he had taken his eldest daughter, Florence, into the drawing-room and made her kick her father. One would have imagined that this would have been the very extreme of brutality; but not so, as he had ealled up his young son Arthur, and, after hating compelled him to spit in his mother's face, had made him spell a most disgusting name. The learned Counsel then detailed a corrupt nature, and commenc e d reading anumber tiritten to a number of hi s mistresses,numbcr of e so c m ts e of cf theowf t most c s o h m loe o mt s vire r r a women who had been do mestics in his own home. The case was proceeding when we went to press. The bullion operations at the Bank yesterday comprised an gold, and the withdraw a l o f ls,O inx 15,000 sovereigns forign Boo the in `Neat Indies. of Mincin g •l a n e . The oetne notice directors c The suspension has been anno unce d o f M essrs. B erger Brothers. ontkental Bank Corporation have g Instalment of £5 per share o n r v . re m ct e t t hr a s l a t brokers, o f the the third e the l,o n4e3w 1 7 shares la fromr3d s on of a h u payable on 2d Jan. n ex t, The m has brought a remittan ce o f x the dividend on the debt of The aca e cao c y o an company p tioj a i t :try is Ecuador. During the last few days there has been rather more activity in the markets for Nreign and Colonial Produce. whileAt the a publicfaifair a sales oun o t of Indian o f business tea full prices were obtained. S ug ars have been in more d emand at enhanced prices ; has been done in coffee, rico, and cocoa. In fruit theta has been very little anima. nwhile moderate request at ste a dy prices o, f both tallow pr a has ent beend ; r ward delivery. A n extraordinary general Meeting of shareholders of the t ioranforward London and Northern Bank was held to-day, for the pur pose of considering the prop!, t y _ of carrying into effect the proposed arrangement with fhe Midland Bank, by which the latter company takes over the principal branches of the bank at a sum nearly equivaent to one and a-half year's purchase of the profits of the business, and also for volun tarily winding up the affairs of the London and Northern Bank. THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY AT TIIE POST-OFFICE, —The following notice has been issued from the General Post-office :—As Monday the 26th o f D ecem b er will be kept as a holiday, i n consequence of Christmas-day falling on Sunday, there will be no delivery of letters by the London district post in the afternoon of that day. Letters for the night mails will be collected from the town pillar boxes at 5 p.m., from the town receiving houses at 5.30 pan, and from the suburban boxes and offices a t th e usual t i me; but there will be no later collection either from,the pillar boxes or the receiving houses. The receiving houses will be opened for half-an-hour before the afternoon collection, for the receipt of registered letters and for the sale of stamps ; but no money order or savings bank business be trans acted. Letters to be forwarded by the morning mails on Tuesday, the 27th December, must be posted either at the head district offices, the branch offices at Lombard-street and Charing-cross, or in the town pillar letter boxes, as there will be no collec;ion for such mails from any town receiving house ; but in the suburbs letters for then will be collected as usual. The morning mails will be despatched from London as usual, but the provincial mid..d ay ma il s will not be forwarded.—W. BOKENHAM, Controller. • AN OLD PONY,—Lord Nelson, a favourite pony, the property of Mr Palin, of Staplefurd Hall, Cheshire, was found dead on Satutday morning last. He had attained to the almost unprecedented age of 43. A few days before his death he could not be caught when turned into th 3 fields, and few fences could stop him. Tho day before his death he appeared quite well, and was grazing as usual. SOZII9 straw had been placed in a corner of a field, to prepare for thatching, upon which he had laid himself down and died, apparently without a struggle. He was perfectly sound in wind and limb to the last, and had not a windgall about him. —Manchester Courier. RACING FIXTURES FOR 18(35. J ANUARY. Manchester FEBRUARY. Lincoln Spring YI I Nottingham Spring 28 MA.RCIL . Derby Spring Liverpool Spring Shrewsbury Spring ~ „ 9 Chelmsford Spring „ „ 28 Address to President Lincoln. A deputation from the Emancipation Society waited upon the Hon. C. F. Adams, the American Minister, yesterday afternoon, at his residence in Portland-place, to present to his Excellency, for transmission to the United States, an address con• gratulating President Lincoln on his re-election. Mr F. W. Chesson, the hon. secretary, read the following address adopted by the Emancipation Society for presentation to Mr Lincoln : TO HIS EXCELLENCY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Sir,—We, the President and members of the Emancipa tion Society, with profound respect for your person and for your of Fie, congratulate you upon your re-election as Pro sident of the United Szates of America. Your first election marked you out as the freely chosen leader of the people for the express and avowed purpose of resisting the encroachments of the slave power, and we re - oice that, after four years' experienca, your countrymen are again determined that you shall act as the it chief magistrate for another term of office, in order that the hateful institu tion of slavery may be entirely abolished. We agree with those who el,,cted you in their deduc tions that ' slavery was the cause of the rebellion" it is your dnty to quell; that it " must be hostile to the principles of Republican Government;" and that both " justice and na tional s -defy demand its extirpation," and we at the same time feel confident that while vigorously conducting the remaining operations of the war so as to accomplish this high purpose, your administration will be guided, as it has hitherto been, by an earnest desire to mitigate the suffer ings inseparable from a condition of strife. We have noticed with peculiar satisfaction the sanction and aid given by your Government to the voluntary efforts of the Sanitary Commission, whose agents have not confined their bene ficent action to their own party in the struggle, but have bestowed the greatest care and attention upon the sick and wounded rebels who have fallen into your hands. We deplore the loss of valuable life in the protracted conflict which the slaveholders have forced upon your coun try—but it is an honour to you and to your fallow-citizens that no prisoners have been put to death for the mere fact of being taken in arms against your Government—and we have faith that you will continue to show all possible mercy and forbearance to the enemies of your republic, and thus leave to your contemporaries and to posterity the gratefu task of placing your moderation in noble contrast with the deplorable and sanguinary ferocity exhibited by European despots towards those whom their cruelty has driven to revolt. That your exertions may shorten the duration cf the war, and that your country, thoroughly purged and puri fied from the crime and curse of slavery, and w.th every citizen, without regard to race or colour, standing in per fect equality before the law, may enjoy internal happiness, and exert a useful and widespread influence for the ad vancement of liberty and the general good of mankind, is the wish and prayer of your sincere friends. WILLIAM EVANS, Chairman. P. A. TAYLOR, Treasurers. W. T. 111ALLESON, F. W. CRESSON, Hon. Secretary. London, Dec. 1864. After complimentary speeches from several members of the deputation, His Excellency Mr. ADAMS said,—Mr Chairman and Gentlemen,--1 receive the address which you are pleased to commit to my care with great satisfaction. Coming as it does from an association of such respectability in this king dom, it cannot fail to be regarded in America as a strong proof of the friendly interest taken by a considerable por tion of the English people in the \I &are of the United States while passing through their great perils. This will do great good, for I cannot disguise from myself or from you the painful fact that an opposite disposition has been manifested here in very influential circles, end that the knowledge of this has given rise to a general impression among my countrymen that the whole British nation really desires the disruption, and consequent downfall, of the power of the United States. 'Renee has sprung up a cor responding degree of which bids fair, if not counter acted, only to increase with time. If such passions be per mitted a full indulgence between two nations it needs little sagacity to foretell that, in the long run, the end is war. Very fortunately for us . all in the present case, the demon. strations already made by yourselves, and may other asso ciations whose friendly communications from various por tions of the kingdom I am now continually receiving for transmission to America, will enable those who value the blessings of peace and international amity to prove that, whatever may be the hostility of some, it is by no means shared by the great number of the British people, and ought not to be presumed to be a national impression (Cheers.) Permit me, gentlemen, further to observe that the election to which you refer in your address has drawn out as full and general an expression of the opinion of the whole people of the region in which it has taken place as has ever been the case in the most peaceful times, Never was a canvas more perfectly freo, nor rnore latitude taken in all the discussions of public questions and of the characters of public men. Under these circumstances it is needless to point out to you how mistaken have been the notions of some that any essential variation has taken place in the general operation of free institutions in all that portion of the United States, constituting much the greatest part, not immediately the theatre of the war. (Cheers.) I would further beg leave to call your attention to two points which the history of the late election appears clearly to establish. The first is the practical impossibility of making any effec tive separation of the personal and political interest of the two sections of America now involved ia this deplorable struggle. This is indubitably shown by the fact that at no time in our history has so direct and persistent an effort at inrerference to control the event of the election of Presi dent been made by the people of the insurgent States as upon this last occasion, while they profess—and doubtless honestly, their desire to separate themselves wholly from it. The notorious projects devised by some of their agents at Niagara Falls in the autumn, followed as they were by the nomination at Chicago of a candidate for the Presi deLcy committed to a policy dictated by that portion of the people well known to be moat in sympathy, it not in abso lute communication, with them, furnish evidence enough of this truth, if the same were not confirmed by the regrets unequivocally expressed since by certain prominent leaders in the Southern States at the failures of their expectations from that nomination. This shows that, whatever might be the sincerity with which either portion of the country might act ia the supposition that it should consent to pledge itself to a complete separation, the fact that the political interest of the two are inextricably interwined will, under every pos sible circumstance, render all such promises in practice futile and void. The second point to which I would advert is natu rally suggested by the first. It is this—that the only real question of difference between the two parties in the election was that which directlyinvolved the interests of the elavehold ing insurgents, much more than those of the loyal States. I (Cheers.) The nomination at Chicago rested on an implied, if not an express engagement, to protect domestic slavery so far as not to make it a question in any plan of pacification or restoration of the Union. (Hear.) The policy of the Go vernment, on the other hand, was well understood to be a restoration of the Union as a primary object, but the set tlement of the slave question as a necessary preliminary to a durable re-establishment of peace. If this be a correct statement of the issue, it can be no cause of surprise to find the insurgents straining every nerve to bring about a result favourable to their interests. It was then the fate of slavery that mach the turning point in the great deci tion to be made by the people of the United States on this occasion. If this be so, the result is one in which we may be permitted all to rejoice in common, It has continued a Government which has already done much towards eman cipation in the progress of the war, and which might be de pended upon to go on doing more, in proportion as matters should approach more nearly the great end of its perfect work. (Hear.) I will conclude, then, with the expression of a hope that, without regard to national distinction, all good men may have cause to rejoice in the termination of this melancholy struggle, if that end be at once the confir mation of a free Government in America, and the eradica tion of the most formidable evil with which its progress has been heretofore cursed. (Loud cheers.) Three cheers were then given for Mr Lincoln, and the deputation withdrew. The divorce case—Stone v. Stone and Apple• ten, which has been in course of trial for several days, was brought to a close yesterday. This was the second trial, the former one having ended in a verdict for the plaintiff, the jury finding that the wife had committed adultery. Yes terday this decision was reversed. The jury found that the respondent had not been guilty of the adultery charged. A tSCHOOLMASTRR CHARGED WITH BURGLARY AND WASTING 150 GALLONS OF ALE.—At the Court-house at Driffield on Wednesday, William Arnott, of Poston, near Driffield, schoolmaster, was charged with breaking into an ale cellar, and stealing and wasting a large quantity of ale, the property of Mr Robert Gibson, of Pos ton, brewer. Robert Ross stated that he locked the brewery and the ale cellar on Saturday night at 6 o'clock, and saw that all was safe. There were eight 18 gallon casks on the gantry working, and another bat rel en the tap. On Sunday morning he found the cellar door broken open. Ile fetched Mr Gibson, and they found eight of the casks thrown down and nearly empty. The others were laid on their sides and nearly empty, and the contents were spilt on the floor. A stick and a hat were found in the cellar. Mr Gibson said that all the ale—about 160 gallons, worth Is 3d per gallon—was wasted, except two eighteen gallon casks, He saw all safe at ten o'clock on the previous night. Police constable Gardam stated that he took Arnott into custody on Sunday night, and charged him with breaking into Mr. Gtbsou's ale cellar. He said " Yes," He asked the prisoner if he could produce the hat and stick he had in his posses sion on Saturday night; and he said he bad lost them. He said " You have found it out. I may as well tell you the truth, I broke into the cellar, myself, I was alone, and I left my hat and stick. I got my bellyfull of drink," The prisoner, on being asked by the magistrates if he had any thing to say, made a statement similar to the above; and said the cellar door came open es easily as a roan could take his het from his head, but he denied upsetting the ale bar rels. He was committed to prison for a month. 48 3 a a 1351 IS7 6i 79 1 at 8 1 3 16, 171 1? 106 38i 120 f 08i 1 2 66} 1211 } 139 i i 1141 14 73 1041 WESTMINSTER. DEXTEROUS ROBBERY FROM A CART.—John Mahain, 16, was charged with stealing a portmanteau, containing boots and shoes, value £9, from a cart in Tachbrook-street, Pimlico. Mr Thomas Hooker, boot and shoe manufacturer, of 14, Church-street, Bethnal-green, said that at 5 o'clock yester day evening he was at the shop of Mr Eastgate, boot maker, 10, Upper Tachbrook-street, Pimlico, and left his cart outside, containing samples of boots and a portmanteau. He heard an alarm, and ascertained that a portmanteau had been taken from his cart. Mr Eastgate and his shoprnan went one way and witness drove another. Mr Eastgate caught the prisoner and brought him to the station. Mr Thomas Eastgate, 10, Upper Tackbrook..street, said he heard an alarm, and proceeded down St. Leonard street. He saw about GO yards in front of him prisoner and two other men walking. Prisoner had a bundle on his shoulder, and as witness approached he saw it was the portmanteau which had beon stolen. Prisoner's companion spoke to him, and he crossed over the road, and witness running up collared him. The other had just before hollowed out, and this caused prisoner to turn round. Seeing witness, he im. rnediately dropped the bag between them and ran away. Witness picked up the carpet-bag, and the shopman pur sued him, while he took the bag to a shop for safety. He lost sight of prisoner, but as the shopman pursued him he turned up the same street as he had run down, and witness and his shopman caught him together. He said he knew nothing about it, and said he would ,pay for a cab to the station, where he was taken. Constable Saunders, 99 B, proved being at the station at the time, and that prisoner ref used his address, Prisoner, who had a very gentlemanly demeanour about him, said he did not wish to disgrace his parents, but now gave his address as 40, Union-street, Huston Old Town. He was remanded. THAMES, CAUTION TO RUFFIANS.—Edward Downey, a very rough-looking fellow, aged 31, of No. 37, Devonshire-place, St. George-in-the-East, was brought before Mr Partridge charged with being drunk and disorderly inside the Blud Posts publichouse, in the West India-road, Limehouse, and refusing to leave when requested by Mr Charles R, Balls, the landlord. This was a proceeding under a recent Act of Parliament relating to houses of public entertainment. The prisoner entered the Blue Posts last evening, at half-past 5 o'clock and demanded refreshment. Mr Balls refused to serve him and told him he had been forbidden the house in conse quence of his (prisoner's) riotous conduct in the house. The prisoner refused to leave the house, and made a great dis turbance. He abused Mr Balls, and made a great dis turbance. He was ordered to leave the house, and on his refusal Cawse, a constable, was sent for, who took the pri. Boner into custody. The prisoner was very turbulent, and interrupted the business of the public house. The prisoner said he had been at work in a corn vessel yesterday, and did 50 quarters. He went with his work mates to the Blue Posts to settle their wages and accounts, and after they had 7 or 8 pots of porter he wanted another pot, and the landlord refused to serve him. Mr Balls said he would not supply the prisoner with any thing, drunk or sober, and that he was the terror of the household. ' Mr Partridge said the landlord was quite justified in what he had done. The proprietors of public houses and their servants had no right, and were not bound to serve, drunken and disorderly customers. Every person miscon ducting himself in a publichouse and not leaving when requested, was liable to a fine. lie sentenced the prisoner to pay a penalty of 40s or be iwprisoned 21days. The prisoner was committed. MARKETS—This Day MARK-LANE. Fresh up to our market to.day the arrivals of home grown wheat were very moderate. The trade, however, was dull for all qualities; nevertheless, selected parcels steadily supported previous quotations. With foreign wheat the market was well supplied. Red American descriptions moved off steadily at full prices, otherwise the trade was dull on former terms. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request at late rates. There was a full average supply of barley on the stands. The trade even for malting descriptions ruled heavy, and inferior produce changed hands at low prices. The malt trade was dull, and prices had a drooping tendency. Owing to the large arrival of oats the oat trade ruled heavy, and the quotations were somewhat easier. Beans and peas were in slow request, at about stationary prices. Flour moved off slowly, at late rates. ARRIVALS THIS WREN. Wheat. Barley, Malt. Oats. Flour. Enzlish 1,76J 2,660 640 10 30 Irish „. — 1,950 Foreign 7,070 8,490 58,880 150 BOROUGH HOP. The amount of business passing in our market is very moderate. The supply of produce on offer, however, is small, and prices of all descriptions rule firm. per cwt. New Mid and East Kent New Weald of Kent New Susses Yearlings NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL, Fair supplies of meat are on sale at these markets. The trade generally is firm, at our quotations. Per 81b. by the carcase. sdsd Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 6 diddling do. .. 3 8 4 2 Prime large do. 4 4 4 6 Do. small do. .. 4 8 4 10 Large pork .... 3 8 4 8 Inferior mutton. 3 8 4 8 ad a d Middling mutton 4 6 4 8 Prime do .. 4 /0 5 0 Veal Small pork ~ 410 5 2 Lamb COLONIAL. TEA.—The public sales of Indian have produced little animation. About 3,300 packages were all sold at steady prices. SlactAß.—There has been a great demand for West India, and the late advance in prices has been fully sustained. In the refined market common and brown lumps are quoted 43s to 43s 6d, COFFEE,—The demand for both plantation and native Ceylon has been steady, and saperior qualities have slightly advanced. Other descripti,ns continue in fair demand at late quotations. RICE.--Only moderate transactions have been entered nto, but prices in most instances are well sustained. FRUIT.—The public sales have gone off without any Ipirit, and quotations generally are unaltered. GREEN FRUlT.—Market brisk:for all kinds, owing to the usual Christmas demand. Some parcel oranges from St. Michael's, Terceira, .Fayal, Valancia, and Sicily, sold by Keeling and Hunt, went at an advanced price. Lemons improved in value. Stack light. Black Spanish nuts in request—Para scarce. Moderate inquiry for walnuts. French chesnuts sell freely, price moderate, A cargo of Bilboa has arrived. TALLOW —The market remains quiet. P.Y.C. now on the spot is quoted 41s to 41s 3d, and January to March delivery 41s 6cl per cwt. Bank of England Return,•--Last Evening. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 14th day of Dec. 1864: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ......X28.004,975, Government Debt £11,015,1CC Other Securities .. 3.034,4100 Gold Coin & Bullion 13,351,0;5 Silver Bullion .... £28,( 04,075 .£28,C01,075 .EPARTISIENT. Government Secu rities (including Dead NN'eightAu nuity) £ 1 0474,542 Other Securities 17,730,C66 Notes Gold and Silver 768,636 Coin 437,798,63 IV, MILLER, Chief Cashier. 431 66 BANKING D Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553.000 Best Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis n►issioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- counts) 7.161.719 Other Deposits 12,267,4, 4 Seven Day and other Bills . 40,117 £37,79.i,60.1 Dec. 16, 1864. Mr Ruskin on the Education of Women, On Wednesday evening Mr Ruskin delivered a lecture in the large room of the Manchester Town Hall, to a fashion able audience, in aid of a fund for fitting up schoolrooms in a densely-populated part of St. Andrew's parish, Ancoats. Mr RUSKIN said this lecture was a sequel to one he de delivered a week ago. In the former one he endeavoured to show that there was only one pure kind of kingship—that which consisted in a stronger moral state, and in a truer thoughtful state than that of others, enabling us therefore to guide or serve others. All literature, and all education were only useful eo far as they led to the apprehension and continuance of that kingly power, first over ourselves, and through ourselves over all around us. He was going to ask that evening what portion of the royal authority aris • ing out of education might rightly be 1,0-sees:el by women, how tar tbey were called to a true queenly power over all within their spheres. This could not be determined until it was agreed what the ordinary and common power of women should be. Last week he said the best use of education was to enable us to consult wise men on all points of difficulty. Apple leg that rule now, he would inquire what the greatest, the wi,est, and the purest hearted among the men of all time held es to the true dignity and position of women. Taking Shakspere first, he had not one entirely heroic figure in all his pays, except the slightly sketched one of Henry the Filth, exaggerated fur the purposes of the stage, and the still slighter Valen tine in the " Two Gentlemen of Verona." On the other hand, there was scarcely a play that had not in it a perfect woman, Isabella, Queen Katherine, Perdita. Sylvia, Viola, Hermione, Lnogen, Htlena, and last and perhaps loveliest, Viruil'a were all faultless, all conceived in the highest type of humanity. The catastrophe of every play was brought about always by the folly or fault of a man; the redemption, if there were any, by the wisdom and virtue of a woman. Observe also that among all the principal figures in Shek spere's plays there was only one weak woman, Ophelia, and it was because she failed Hamlet at the critical moment that all the catastrophe followed. There were wicked women among the principal figures, but they were felt to be excep tions, and were fatal in their influence according to the power of good they had abandoned. As the writer who had given the broadest and truest view of the conditions of ordi nary thought in modern society, he would next ask his hearers to receive the witness of Sir Walter Scott. In the whole range of hls works only three men approached the heroic type, Claverhouse, Rob Roy, and Dandy Dinmont. Of any deep, consistent character, of any purpose wisely con • coined, there was no trace in any of Scott's conceptions of men—whereas in his conceptions of women—Helen Douglas, Flora M'lvor, Catherine Seaton, Diana Vernon, even in Meg Merrilies, and last and loveliest in Jeanie Deans—we had an infallible and inevitable sense of dignity and justice, and an entire self-sacrifice. Going back to the testimony of the:great Italians and Greeks, the plan of Dante's great poem, was that it was a love poem of thanks to his dead lady for her watch over his soul. Among the Greeks we found the simple mother's and wife's heart of Andromache ; the divine, yet always rejected wisdom of Cassandra, the play ful kindness and simple princess life of the happy Nausicaa —the lofty calm of Penelope, with its watch upon the sea; the ever-patient piety of sister and daughter in Antigone ; the going to EgerlfiCe of Iphigenia, lamb-like and silent; and finally, the expectation of the resurrection rendered clear to the soul of the Greek by the return of Alcestis, who to save her husband had deliberately gone down to the shades of death. He could multiply such instances from Chaucer, and Spenser, and others, but ho would content himself with asking his hearers to give its legitimate value to this testimony of the great poets and great men of the world. Lastly, he would take the evidence of facts given by the human heart itself. In all Christian ages notable fur purity and progress there had been absolute obedience of the lover to his mistress. What we too often doubted was the fitness of the continuance of that relation through out the whole of human life, It was . thought that the re verence and duty were to be withdrawn when the affec tion had become wholly and limitlessly our own. Was not that most ignoble ? The idea of the guiding functionot the woman was reconcilable with that of the obedience, for her guidance was that of the compass, not that of the helm. Hers was the guiding not the determining function. We were most foolish in discussing which sex had the supre • macy. The man was eminently the doer, the discoverer, the defender ; the woman's intellect was for order, ar• rangement, and decision. Home was the place of peace and of shelter, not only from injury but also from terror. Whereever a true wife came such a home was always around her. Accepting this, then, as the true conception of the office and dignity of woman, the next question was what kind of education would fit her for it. Her physical training and exercise must be continually directed to per• fact her health and beauty. Physical freedom was vain to produce beauty without a corresponding freedom of heart. Wordsworth truly said of a maiden : " Vital feelings of delight, Shall rear her form to stately height." They must be of delight to be vital. We must not think make a . girl lovely without making her happy. The per fect beauty of a woman's countenance could only come out of that majestic peace which arose from a well-remem bered past of happy times, full of sweet records, and from the joining of those with that more majestic childishness which was yet full of change and promise, and bright with presage of things to come and to be bestowed. Then, as the strength would permit, we had to fashion the girl's mind with all manner of thoughts which tended to confirm its natural instinct of justice, and to unfold its natural instinct of love, Ali such knowledge should be given her as would enable her to aid the work of raan ; and it should be given, not as knowledge, but only to enable her to feel and judge. It was of no moment whether she knew many languages or sciences, but of the greatest importance that she should be trained to habits of accurate thought, Chiefly she should be taught to extend the limits of her sympathy with re spect to the sufferings which were continually befalling those around her. A girl's education should be, in its course and material of study, the same as a boy's, but quite dif ferently directed. A woman in any rank of life ought to know what her husband was likely to know, but to know it in a different way ; he for a complete command of it—she for a daily and helpful use of it, Man shou'd know the subjects thoroughly ; woman should know them only so far as to enable her to sympathise with and to enhance all the pleasure of them. She should, however, know them accurately, and not have a mere smattering of them, or she would but tease, and not help, her husband. Of the two, a girl should be led earlier than a boy into serious subjects, as her mind developed earlier, as they would make her less frivolous, and would be calculated to add the qualities of patience and seriousness to the buoyancy of her thought and wit, and to occupy her mind with the loftiest and purest elements of thought. The books for her reading should be chosen ; they should not be all those that fell out of the package from a circulating library wet with the spray of folly. It was not the badness of a novel that he would dread, but its overwrought excitement. The weakest, romance was not so stupifying as the 1 west form of religi ous penny-a lining; the worst romance was not so corrupt ing as false history, philosophy, and politics. Good novels, such as modern literature gave examples of, might be made serious use of, being nothing less than treatises on moral anatomy and chemistry, and on the study of human nature in all its elements. But ho attached little weight to their teaching, as they were not read with sufficient seriousness, Whatever novel, poetry, or history was read should be chosen not for what was out of it, but what was in it. Scat tered evil in a powerful book never did any harm to a noble girl ; it was the emptiness of a book that oppressed her, and its amiable folly that degraded her, It she had access to a library of old and classical books there need be no choosing for her; she would find what was of use for herself. The difference between a girl and a boy was that they might chisel a boy as they would a rock, or might hammer him as they would bronze, but they could not hammer a girl into anything. She grew as a Sower did, and would wither if not treated kindly. In art there should be kept before her the finest models, which were the truest, simplest, and most useful. Her practice in accomplish. ments should be accurate and thorough. One more help ehe could not do without; it would do more than all other in.' fluences beside. De Quincay, in his beautiful essay on Joan of Arc, stated that her early life was passed on the borders of a boundless forest, haunted by fairies. It was the soli tude and the quiet thought that came out of the loveliness and divinity of nature that made her noble soul raise her to what she became. If they had a garden large enough for their children to play in, with just as much lawn as they could run about upon, they would be wrong in displacing it by a coal shaft, even if they increased their income thereby sixtyfold. Yet this was what they were doing with England. It was only a little garden, scarcely too large for all the chil dren to run about in; and this they would turn, if they could, into furnace ground and heaps of cinders. The chil dren suffered from this,for the fairies would not be banished, There were fairies of the furnace as well as of the wood; and the first gifts of those fairies of the furaace were arrows of the mighty, but the last were coals of juniper. Snowdon was our Parnassus; the Holyhead mountain our island of iEgina. Where was its temple of Minerva ? In the report of 1848, published by the Committee of Council on Education, the examiner stated that, in a school under the shadow of the Christian Parnassus, and near a town containing 5,000 persons, he examined a large class of girls, three of whom declared that they had never heard of Christ, two that they had never heard of God, two thought Christ was still on the earth (not so bad a thought. by the way), and three knew nothing about the crucifixion. The women of England, from the must not think while r a i t n c t h c e s e u s i e r h o c f h a s i d:r e a e ha les e d o t u m o l the e d n b t i e o n b s r e i o d m u p w g l e h e r t s e t t s o o c f t he at a t l e l r t , rue ed o n f told r, h i :l e l et, as sheep without a shepherd ; or that their daughters could be beauty, while and the play_ grounds plea santtrainedplaces to the truth of their w h ichGod ei r h made for their b eh grounds were desolate and defiled ; or that they could ever be baptised rightly in tho inch-deep fonts until they were baptised in those sweet waters which the Great Law_ giver struck forth for ever from the rocks of their native land, waters which Pagans would worship in their purity, but which We only defiled. The last and widest question was, what was to be the queenly office of those children with respect to the State? Generally speaking, they had the impression that a man's duties were chiefly public, and a woman's private, but this could nee be altogether so. A man had a ptivete work or duty relating to his own house, and a public work or duty relating to the state. So a woman had a private duty relating to her own household, and a public, work or duty, which was the expan&on of those. The man's work for his own home was maintenance, progress, defence —the woman's order, comfort, and loveliness. The man's duty to the commonwealth consisted in the maintenance and defence of the state; the woman's duty as a member of the commonwealth consisted in ordering, comforting, and attending to the beautiful adornments of the State. Within the human heart there was always set an instinct for all its real duties. It was long since the women of England arro gated universally a title that once belonged to the nobility only, that of lady, which rightly corresponded only to the title of lord. He did not blame them for this, but only for the narrow motive for it. They might claim the title of lady, provided they claimed also the corresponding officc. Lady meant bread giver, or loaf giver, as lord nreant tneintaincr of:law ; and these had reference, not to law maintained in the house, or bread given to the household, but to law main tained ter and bread broken among the multitude. They w,re ladies if they cared for the bodies of their vassals ; they were queens only as they became empresacs of their souls, There was not 5. war i❑ the world, there was not au irj us . rice doing in it, but women were answerable for it; not that they had provoked it, but that they had net hin dered it. Men by their nature were prone to fight for any cause ; it was for the women to choose the cause for them. There wis no suffering injustice, or misery on earth but women primarily were guilty of it. Men could bear the sight of it; women should not bear the sight ci it. Instead of exercising their power, women shut them.. selves within their garden gates, and were con'ent to know that there were beyoni them, in the wilderness of the world, secrets they did not penetrate, and sufferings they did not attempt even Ito console. This was to him the, most amazing thing among all the phenomena of hume e , nay. There was another garden besides that in which it was :prettily said flowers would grow the better for those who loved them. Did they never hear of a Magdalene who went down into her garden at the dawn, and found ono waiting at the gate whom she took for the gardener ? Had we not sought Him often at the gate of that old garden where the fiery sword was set ? He, was never there. But at the gate of the other garden He was waiting always, to take our hands, and to go down with us to see the fruits of the valley, to learn whether the vino had flourished and the pomegranate budded. Among the hills and happy greenwood of this land of ours, should the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, while the stones of the street cried out against the worneet —the queens—of England, that there were no other pillows than those stones whereon man, the son of man, could lay his head ? (Applause.) A cordial vote to Mr Ruskin, on the motion of Mr Butterworth, seconded by Dr. 'Wilkinson, concluded the proceedings. British Archmological Association. An ordinary meeting of the members of the Bri, tish Arct alt)logical Association was held on Wed.% nesday evening, at their rooms in Sackville-street, Dr. Copeland in the chair. It was stated by Mr Roberts, one of the honorary secretaries, when an nouncing the election of some associates, that 55 had been added to their number since the com mencement of the present year. Many objects of antiquarian interest were eihi- bited. A bronze statuette of Mars,stated to have beery found in London, was exhibited by Mr Bedder. This statuette was evidently of Etruscan work, and in very good preservation, Another statuette of Mars in bronze, exhibited by Mr H, Syer Cuming, for comparison with it, as of undoubted E ruican origin was in a more mutilated condition. A variety of interesting Roman, Saxon, and medico val fibu'te, Szo., found in Suffulk, were exhibited by Mr Warren.. Lord Boston sent for inspection a fragment of a panegyric on William IH., which had been presented w William Lord Paget by the writer, the greater part of whose name had been broken away. A drawing of the axletree of an ancient British chariot, found at Haydock, in Lancashire, was exhibited by Dr. Kendrick. It was formed of oak, and in the thickest part was 17in. in circumference. it was discovered buried under 3 feet of mud, and the con, dition of the wood was similar to that of ancient British boats and other wooden implements of the same period that have been discovered. A still more curious relic of ancient British workmanship, or rather adaptation, was the washer of the wheel of a chariot, exhibited by Mr Cuming, whi c h was constructed from one of the vertebi to of a whale, A. portion of one of several leaden brine pans of the Roman era, found at Northwich, in Cheshire, was exhibited by Dr Kendrick. The pans were about 3ft long and 4in deep, and the lead, which had been cast, was three.eighths of an inch thick, The word. D,:Tve" was distinctly visible on the fragment in Dr Kendrick's possession. Two rudely.colistructed earthernware pots, made by hand, with devices of spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds stamped upon them, in the possession of the Rev. E. 1). Bolton, of Ipswich, were exhibited as illustrations of the mistakes sometimes made in giving fictitious anti quity to objects because they are roughly manufac tured. These pots had teen placed in the tenan porary museum collected at Ipswich during the recent meeting of the Archaeological Association in that town, and were labelled as ancient British; but the misrepresentation was soon pointed out, and the notion that the ancient Britons might have played at whist was dispelled by the visit of the more experienced metropolitan antiquaries. The pots had been in the possession of Mr Bolton for 30 years, but he was not aware of the circumstances in which they had been found. Another instance of the erroneous attribution of antiquity was exhi bited. It was a bell of Indian design which had been supposed to be very ancient, but close inspec tio❑ proved it to be of modern manufacture. Mr BLASIIILL read a paper on some sepulchral crosses in Herefordshire, rubbings from which he exhibited. They were of the 14th century, and highly decorated. Some of the crosses were of stone and others of metal, and, from the similarity of design and exscution, Air Blashill inferred they were all done by the same workman. Mr ROBERTS expressed his dissent from that opinion. He observed that at that period there was so much uniformity in the designs and style of work of different guilds that the workmanship, whether in stone or metal, appered to be exactly similar, though the objects might have been executed by many different hands. MC. ROBERTS read a letter from Mr Palmer, of Newbury, in which he mentioned that excavations are being successfully made at Silchester, under tho direction of the Duke of Wellington, who is about to form a large museum of the British and Roman antiquities discovered. Silchester was an important Roman station, and the Roman wall remaining there is one of the finest in the kingdom. Some other short communications were made to the meeting, which then adjourned to Jan. 11. The Knighthood of the Chief Magistrate. Sir Thomas Henry is the 10th chief magistrate appointed at the Bow-street Police-court. The first was Sir John Fielding, the half-brother of Henry Fielding the novelist, whom he succeded as a justice of the peace. Henry Fielding found the magistracy in so corrupt a state that it was considered a disres putable office. Thejustices were paid by fees and were called "trading justices." By refusing to accept what he termed " dirty money," he reduced the income from £5OO to £3OO per annum. Fielding was en gaged in carrying oat improvements in the police and magistracy when he became disabled from ill health. He was succeeded by his brother John Fielding, who though blind, was a very efficient magistrate, and carried out the new system with considerable energy. In his time the payment of justices by fees was ego, lished, and on the appointment of stipendiary magica trates he became chief magistrate. He was knighted in 1761. He died in 1780, and was succeeded by Sir 'William Addington. The succeeding chief magistrates were Sir Richard Ford, Mr. ltnd, Sir Nathaniel Conant, Sir Robert Baker (wh o resigned a in consequence of a complaint against him that he had allowed the funeral processi on o f Q ueen Caro line Richardto b e Birnie diverted (w from tlie appoi n t e d course), S i r had not been, a magistrate previously to his appointment as chief), Sir F. A. Roe, Mr. Hall, and Sir Thomas Henry. It will be seen that only two--M r . R ea d an d Mr. Hall— declined the hon our of knighthoo d, w hi c h is off e r e d to every chief magistrate, upon his e.ppointrnent. Sic Frederick A, R ae , w h o was knighted in 1832, wa s made a baronet in 1836, upon the death of his uncle, Mr. Adair Roe, whose property he inherited. Mr. Thomas James Hall, the late chi - f magistrate, was appointed to that office in 1839. Thomas Henry was called to the harin 1829, and appointed a magistrate in 1840. He was originally app.*:nted to Lambeth Police.court from which he vas removed to Marlborcugla.street, and thence to court, upon the resignation of Mr Twyford, in 1846 He was appointed chief magistrate on the retilea meet of Mr Hall in the pre6ea, year. r .1